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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
3
The Tribune argues for funding the fair, warning that delaying payments risks its collapse. It frames a donation as a prudent investment if the fair yields $50 annually in value, suggesting contributors consider giving 25 or 50 percent of that value to sustain the event.
Professor R A Moore of the Agricultural College urges La Crosse County to back a school agriculture program at West Salem High School. He argues scientific farmer education counteracts soil erosion and depopulation, noting Wisconsin’s rise as an industrial education center. The piece also comments on Chicago Record-Herald editorials about the Aldrich bill and financial reforms.
The speech urges establishing an agricultural school to educate rural residents and halt retrogressive trends in Wisconsin. It argues the school should link with the state college and experiment station, disseminate modern farming methods, seeds, and livestock, and serve as an information bureau for farmers and gardeners.
A Philadelphia Ledger fragment shows a young man declaring his feelings for a daughter while an older man interrupts to fix the furnace. The exchange hints at courting under practical, domestic constraints.
The Sheffield Daily Independent notes that many northern residents bake their own bread, a custom fading with time. The piece contrasts northern practice with southern habits and suggests the trend may surprise readers.
In Topeka a stage soubrette portraying Janet in the Devil's Auction suffers a wardrobe mishap when a jug of mineral water is mistaken for benzine. The shirtwaist is ruined prompting a $20 dispute and repair, with four La Crosse theater performances starting March 21.
The stage adaptation Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch arrives in La Crosse on Tuesday March 24. The comedy features Mrs Wiggs and neighbors in a sympathetic portrait of poverty with romance threads involving Lovey and baby Tommy and the comic courtship of Miss Hazy by Mr Stubbins.
An old man polishes a musket and tests his grandson’s eyesight with a bottle set about thirty yards away. The exchange shows comic I'll-tell-you-later dialogue as the pair confirms the aim and jokes about aging and perception.
A pair engage in a cautious romance with a persistent caller at the front door. The anxious woman considers evasive lines while the man presses his suit, fighting to keep their moment private as the door repeats its knock.
The editor explains subscriber arrears are pursued to maintain second class postage rates, insisting the policy is necessary and not punitive. Readers are urged to settle dues, with some already asking to stop their paper but the office plans to continue at the same location and continue printing. Nearby notes include Maple Leaf Valley warm 1908 day and Osseo Recorder reports grip symptoms.
A secretive mission to the Balkans forces Charlie to depart and risk long separation from his beloved Maud in a tense romance set against late Victorian London. Max Barclay weighs aiding his friend while unraveling family and social pressures surrounding love, duty, and wealth.
A reflective line suggests a tombstone inscription praising a man who cared for children and attended to them in the night, portraying kindness and duty as enduring tributes.
A colorful 1930s voice laments trials of life and labor in the coal industry. The speaker jokes about religion and greed, recalling pay and price hikes for a corner lot while critiquing false piety and business practices.
A humorous noting from Yonkers Statesman cites statistics allegedly from Tokio and Russia about Teetotalers and strong stances on water, reflecting satirical mischief in press quips.
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